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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02673	The liues, apprehensions, arraignments, and executions, of the 19. late pyrates Namely: Capt. Harris. Iennings. Longcastle. Downes. Haulsey. and their companies. As they were seuerally indited on St. Margrets Hill in Southwarke, on the 22. of December last, and executed the Fryday following.		1609 (1609)	STC 12805; ESTC S103778	39,540	62

was found to be faulty andrruth being waighed in the scailes of Iustice we were found too light so that hauing remained twenty daies in Bristoll I was from thence from Shiriffe to Shiriffe directed to Newgate my brother comming along and bearing me company who labouring like the carefull Bee in my businesse neuer idle solliciting here and labouring there and who had hopefull expectation and promises I should find mercy that had for my offences deserued none I built not yet my trust on so shaking a foundation but although to supply the company of mymultitude of friends whose loue came daily to visit me I bare an outside of mirth I h ad a hart peece of sorrow considering in my thoughts how I had wronged the stranger and those whose losses I could neuer right how I had vndone many had but a lifeto satisfie all I desired not now to build for that where I might not continue but labour for that where I should liue for euer I thought it not requisite now to forget Heauen for earth the soule for the bodie nor heauenly pleasures for temporall goods I acknowledge now that in a worldly building the stones must be broken hewen and squared ere they be fit to make vp the worke the corne must be thrashed winnowed and purified before it be ready for nourishing bread the whirlewind must first blow ere Elias be rapt into heauen so euery sinner must be cut hewen and squared with the blowes that beat vppon his guilty conscience be threashed wi nnowed and purified with prayers repentance and amendement of life and sighes must make way both for body and soule if we meane ere to come to our heauenly Ierusalem I remembred now that vncookt meat is vnwholesome for man and vnmortified men be no creatures for God which made me in my chamber in the houres of quiet alone neuer haue the Pensiue-mans practise out of my hand nor the penitent mans-practise outof my heart therefore I must say to him it was vrgently done who informed the Counsell that the Saterday be fore my tryal first imprisonment in the Marshalsies and in my imprisonnement my first meeting with Captaine Iennings who at sea together did call brothers and being with him but orderly mercie he reported to their Lordships we were mad drunke this was informed to be done and whosoeuer did it I must needes tell him it was but a homely message since it is no good nor charitable office to heape vniust iniuries vppon miserable men for I protest I had that testimony in my selfe that my sorrow had washed away my foulenesse and loathing my life I inuited my death knowing there is no death where there is no sinne for by sinne death entred into the world and the wages of sinne is death so that what I was to loose I was sure to loose as soone as I had life but the life that I looked for should neuer haue death which patience and resolution of mine the diligent Preacher that both labourd and found in me I doubt not for truth but he will speake and confirme which Christian end of mine I expect that insteed of me it shall encrease comfort in my friends and be a sufficient satisfaction to my aduersaries of whom on the bended knees of my heart I humbly craue pardon from whome being men I feare not deniall since I am sure it is sealed of our Maker in heauen so from a free and vnburthened heart a patient mind and willing steps I goe out of my chamber in the Marshalstes the Friday morning being the two and twenty day of December to make my death-bed at Wapping Of whom Reader if thou destrest more though he be the first of number placed in the booke he was the last of seauenteene that suffered first he made his deuotion and prayers with an affirmatiue tongue threw away his hat as he went bouldly vp the ladder and being demanded of a straunger stood by him If as yet he had heard no good newes from the King he answered him none sir but from the King of Kings and therefore with Peter I must resolue and say I looke for a new heauen and a new earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnesse he sung to a sillable the one and twenty Psalms dyed a repentant sinner and a Christian and by the diligence of his naturall brother was brought to the keeper of Newgates house in Newgate-market and from thence as a Christian was buried in Christe-Church The discourse of Captaine Iennings SInce you are thus farre gentle Readers led on with this discourse of Captaine Harris I doubt not but you will expect the like of the rest which cannot in Captaine Iennings be so well performd as in the former for the education of his youth was ●…o meane and low he could neither write nor read yet notwithstanding it is not brought to your eyes vnder his owne hand the report for certaine was taken from his tongue and thus it is From my childehood quoth he I was wholy addicted to martiall courses espetially in the manly resolution of seafaringmen I was not disaniamated at the reports of others dangers past nor afeard my self to encounter with tempests to come whereby in many voyages returning from Sea I grew to beare the name of a skilfull Marriner which so soone pu●…t vp a selfe conceit in my thoughts that I grew ambitious straight to haue a whole commaund and held it basenes to liue vnder checke It likt me well a shipboard to see the Captaine but bid and his will in all things was straight obeyd and such a one in my ambitiō I resolud to be which authority and place finding my present meanes friends vnpossible lawfully to raise me vnto I bluntly resolued as we vse to say to attaine to it then by hooke or by crooks To which purpose comforting my selfe with a retchles crue and such as loued ryot as well as my selfe for I must truely confesse it was one of my sinnes we were not long before we had made vp our company furnished vs of a ship and by the name of Captaine Iennings I was knowne at Sea so that in the Queenes maiesties raigne during the continuance of the dissention betwixt the King of Spaine the Hollanders I found such a safe refuge and retirement into Dunkerk after many haynous spoyles committed on their Dutch Fly-boates Pinkes and passengers in them that my name grew so odious my offences so multiplied that being knowne to the state I was proclaimd a Pyrate and seueral ships both from England and Holland made out to lie in waight for my apprehention which though long first was at last so effected that by the English I was taken brought prisoner to the Marshalseys expecting nothing but for my time of tryall and hoping for nothing but present death When my louing sister so labourd with petitions to the states that lay heere and to diuers Marchants I had formerly wrongd wherein was my

to attend him but only on Iames a musition who was my Lord of Clanricards man prouided this he returnd to the castle for hislodging atnight Nay after that by the direction of the Councell here he was to be sent for England and that they had receiued true and perfect instructions what an ill liuer he had bene in that they would not seeme to dishearten him in the iourney he was to take they dischargd him of custody and as it had bene to haue imployd him in some affaires of import gaue him charge of a letter to the Maior of Chester whose purpose was to conuey him to London From Chester he was conducted to the Marshalseyses in Southwark where remayning euen since May last to the eye of men he liued a careles life or dreadles of that he did thinke was to come one being mery a drinking with him once demaunded of him thus faith Captaine Iennings and how did you liue when you were at Sea how quoth he I reioyced more to heare the Cannons voyce that bid me to fight then the Church-bell that cald me to prayer I fought not as chickens fight for their meat to sustaine nature but for store of gold to maintaine ryot Another time being drinking in the parlor where they vse to dine in the prison it being somewhat afore Bartholmewtide in hot weather he sat iust with his face in the sun when one demanded of him Captaine Iennings why doe yor sit with your face in the Sun it will make your head ake fogh pox quoth he what do you tell me of the head-ake that shall hang in the sun shortly when my necke shall ake and I do but practise now how I shal fry then The same day that Captaine Harris was brought into prison being the satterday before the arraignement which was the monday following he was in the Marshalseys yard throwing of snow-bals iust as Captaine Harris was comming in at the gate who hauing a snow-ball at that instant in his hand ready to throw one cald vnto him aloud Captaine Iennings Captaine Iennings Captaine Harris is comming Captaine Harris quoth he I loue him well but and the hangman himselfe were comming I would throw out my throw first these haue I set down to signifie to the world the desperatenes of his course the intemperance of his actions and the slight regard he seemed outwardly to take of his soule in that little walke was giuen him to looke vpon betwixt his life and death The time of his tryall being come he was the first that stood indited and arraigned for those seuerall piraces before recited and with these of his company namely Thomas Renolds shoomaker Iohn Williams Marriner and Botson of his ship and Iohn Lodge who being demanded what they could seuerally say to the inditement Captaine Iennings began to intercept the clark in this maner to plead in their excuse Alas my Lord what would you haue these poore men say they can say nothing to it if any thing they haue done they were compeld vnto it by me and I must answer for it To this excuse by that honourable court he was thus answerd that they doubted not but his owne conscience bore witnesse against him that he had heard inough in his seuerall enditements to answer for himselfe and so they wished him let euery one of them and if it should appeare either by testimony or circumstance as heinfer●… they were cleere the whole Court should be glad of it and to that purpose they should be heard themselues or any for them at full Wherevpon Thomas Renolds by the name of Thomas Renolds shoomaker was againe called demanded of the Clarke of the Admiralty what he pleaded to the enditement whether guilty or not guilty who answering not guilty and desierd of their Lordships he might with their gratious fauour be heard and which being by the honourable of the counsell vpon his request presently graunted he pleaded thus That at the time of Captaine Iennings anchoring in Baltimor he was a Iourniman shoomaker resident in Corcke whome Captaine Iennings sent for as he might haue done for any other to bring bootes or shooes to furnish both himselfe and his whole company who with a couple of boyes in hope to make a way his maisters ware with profit came aboord his ship and fitted them also farre as his ware wold serue for which according to his owne price he was from Captaine Iennings owne hand orderly paid and he deliuered the mony to one of the boyes to carry and sent them to stay for him some respite a shore while he being inticed by the Captaine and others to rest a while and be merry with them was with the ouercharging of many made so drunke that he fell in a sleepe in which time the winde seruing and they hauing compassed themselues of all thinges fit the fi●…st time he waked he found himselfe at Sea and the Captaine and others in fight with one of those ships for which he stood now indited and for proofe heereof he brought in another shoomaker to iuis●…fie that at the same time he then inferd he was working in Corke and liued honestly by his labour so that if any thing he had done it was done in the company of them by whome he was compeld vnto it and therefore quoth he I humbly desire both your honours and the Iury to mingle mercy with iustice conscience with equity so commisserate my case Which tale of his hauing so good a relish of credit he being the first that expressed the forme though many after both of Captaine Iennings Captaine Harris and Captain Longcastle●… cōpanies endeuoured to follow the course their honours leauing his defence to the good consideration of the Iury to determine how true it was he onely by their verdit was returnd not guilty and the rest with their Captaine conuicted as fellones and pyrates vpon the high seas and in maner and forme as they stood invited And after their conuiction and iudgement they were conueied backe to the Marshalseys from thence on Fryday morning to Wapping the place appointed for their execution where Captaine Iennings being the first that was cald to goe vp to his death and seeing that he had bene al this while deluded with a fruitles hope for vpon my knowledge both Captaine Harris●…nd ●…nd he the day before their execution did report they were repreiued he did now in soule repent him of his sinne complayned of his lusts and ryots as the causers of his ruine confest that before this he had receiued pardon for his heynous transgressions and had not the goodnesse to desist from ill he desired God of his mercy to receiue his soule the world at his death to pardon his body so desiring the multitude of spectators to pray for him and sing a psalme with him he was the first was turnd of the ladder and after him both Lodge and Williams as his consorts and confederates found guilty in his actions